Thread: Taking a break from lucid dreaming

Originally Posted by Xedan

Well, while I'm not totally saying it's a bad idea (it could work for you), recall is the fish of the dream world. Leave it alone for a couple days and it totally dies off.

This.

Keep up your journalling, but just don't try to force a lucid dream

I always fail when I try to force them, it messes up my normal dreaming and recall something fierce.

Just tell yourself, you WILL have a LD again soon. Someday soon. And if it isn't tonight, then you'll be okay with that I always tell myself this.

Alright, I'll keep my journal up, after all I don't want to stop recalling 2 to 4 dreams per night, cause even when they're not lucid, I looooooooveeee my dreams .

I will report back when I decide it's time to start trying again, might give WILD a shot in 1 week, and start setting my alarms for WBTB in 1 or 2 weeks.

In my opinion you can never try TOO hard with lucid dreaming. Practice makes perfect... you may have just hit a small dry spell, or you're still having lucids, you're just not remembering them. If anything taking a break would be worse for lucid dreaming than trying too hard.

But give it a go if you want lol. Who knows, maybe it could help.

Cheers.

Taking a break sometimes helps with my dry spells.

But I find that it's the renewal of motivation to lucid dream that's the most decisive factor in breaking dry spells. To have motivation, I need to have some lucid dreaming agenda (task) that's (a) interesting to me and (b) something I have confidence I can do. Dry spells tend to occur when one or the other of those conditions is not met by a potential lucid dream agenda. Like, if I fail after many attempts at a specific lucid task, or just can't think of something to do that captures my imagination, I tend to go into a dry spell. I have long periods of just not being into lucid dreaming 'cause there's no agenda that captures my imagination, and during that time I have few, and brief, lucid dreams (because "doing something" in a lucid dream is the best way I know how to prolong it.)

When i first started out with lucid dreaming, my lucid dream were pretty long,
I still think my first decent lucid dream is probably the longest one i ever had.
It's also 1 of the 2 only lucid dreams from wich i intentionaly woke myself up.
When i started focusing more on lucid dreaming i started having trouble staying in the dreamworld...

Also, when i tried to hard, i found that my lucid dreams were boring and 'empty'.
I found it better for me to be less aware, then my lucid dreams are much more adventurous and exciting...
Ofcourse i do get carried away in situations sometimes, not completely realising it's a dream... And even losing lucidity again...

Originally Posted by resoul

When i first started out with lucid dreaming, my lucid dream were pretty long,
I still think my first decent lucid dream is probably the longest one i ever had.
It's also 1 of the 2 only lucid dreams from wich i intentionaly woke myself up.
When i started focusing more on lucid dreaming i started having trouble staying in the dreamworld...

Also, when i tried to hard, i found that my lucid dreams were boring and 'empty'.
I found it better for me to be less aware, then my lucid dreams are much more adventurous and exciting...
Ofcourse i do get carried away in situations sometimes, not completely realising it's a dream... And even losing lucidity again...

That's EXACTLY my case,
My first lucid dream has, BY FAR been the best lucid dream I've ever had,
I figured out I could use a week for "resting" because I think I've been pushing too hard to get one. 3 more days and I'll be doing WBTB's and giving shots at WILD

Started trying again on Friday (4 days ago) and I had a Lucid Dream last night
I think taking a break does help when you are in a dry spell